Part 03

On the other hand, she never seems to tire from, taking active part in On-the-Board-Flight simulation training; she does this whenever she is back at the Crew Creative Services and Modelling Offices. This Friday she was scheduled for another flight simulation training, and she was to be accompanied by Joachim, this time. Joachim whom she had only recently taken in as a team partner had not until now been able to schedule a training session with her in attendance, though he has been in a good many training programme himself.

But that was Malaysia: two weeks away. Right now it is East London, somewhere in the backyards of the council flats of East London. And it was morning and a Wednesday. Joachim was woken up by the glow of the 9 o’clock morning sun. He had been covered by a thick sheet of plastic clothing, which he did not recognize as his own. It was someone else’s raincoat; a  black thick one. There was a reflection of the sun’s rays on the whitewashed wall on the north side to his head. Joachim read the words, ‘’RAINBOW’S ASSEMBLY’’. He grimaced. He had been mugged, not at a bar. But at the hotel, where he had been lodged to spend the night with the other air host and hostesses, in preparation for the weekend’s flight, to China.